hollywood versus reality
you took us up to 60 000 feet what are
you doing
coming up
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hey 74 crew welcome back if you don't
know me my name is kelsey i'm a 747
pilot my channel 74 gear is all about
aviation now i got sent this video by a
few different people they said it's just
the opening part of the movie that needs
to get reviewed that's the only aviation
related part of the movie but if you
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let's get into it hope you've enjoyed
your 18 minute flight from south bend
we'll be touching down in chicago's
midway very shortly we'd like to thank
you for flying with us today because at
econowere we're working hard to win back
your trust
harry might take it over while i hit the
laugh sure thing rusty
thank you very much
oh and rusty
i want to thank you for going to bat for
me last week
i was happy to do it
you know just because corporate says
you're too old to fly doesn't make it
true anything you're more qualified than
us younger guys means a lot to me
sure thing the first obvious thing that
most of you already know is in the u.s
you're never going to see a pilot leave
where there's not a second person up
there on the flight deck now there's a
security reason for that and there's
also a reason for the fact that this guy
looks like he's on his final approach
for life and even though some pilots are
childish when we're at work we still
have protocol to follow and one of those
protocols is before you ever leave the
flight deck you look through that
peephole that you see there this
peephole here is actually one way so we
can see out but people really can't see
in and see what's going on it's very
similar to what a lot of you have in
your house that allows for security for
the pilots to be able to see out make
sure the area is clear that there's no
bad guys or something that looks
suspicious there some planes have
cameras some have cameras and peepholes
but you're always going to look at
people before you go out there here's
the problem this people is set at waist
level which is not practical but would
really make for some great pranks that
would probably get you fired if it were
two-way glass
but it's not that low it's usually
probably i guess about maybe somewhere
about five eight because i usually have
to bend down in order to see out the
people but it does make me wonder if
you're a pilot and you're 5'2 how are
you able to look up and see out the
people the next thing that caught my
attention is something that pilots have
at least i have this is that i'm easily
distracted by certain things if if you
watch some of the outtakes of these
videos that get edited out sometimes
there will be a plane flying by and i'll
be talking to the camera and i'll see a
plane and i'll go oh plane so we can
easily be distracted and the reason
that's relevant is this plane
manufacturers won't put a bunch of
colorful lights in front of us while
we're flying especially these colors
like red and yellow if you put those
types of colors up there in front of the
pilots at all times it's going to make
it a lot harder for the manufacturers of
the aircraft to get our attention if
there is something that's vital that
they need to get our attention on and
red and yellow are up there all the time
you're not going to really see it or
notice it as much so those are the types
of colors that are only going to show up
if it's a caution or a warning so those
are two things that you really need to
pay attention to the next thing is
pilots aren't usually going to leave the
flight deck to go to the bathroom on an
18-minute flight hope you've enjoyed
your 18-minute flight so this is a
little bit nitpicky on this movie but
usually on an 18-minute flight a pilot
is going to go to the bathroom before
takeoff and go to the bathroom on
landing unless they're in a code brown
situation and if you aren't familiar
with the code brown situation i talked
about it in a cockpit confessionals a
few years back i'll put a link to it up
there the other thing is is that pilots
typically refer to management he's
calling them corporate that is true in
corporate america they will refer to if
you're working at a branch store the
overall management they'll call them
corporate but in the airlines when
you're talking about it you usually
refer to it as management there's other
words that people use to refer to
management at airlines but management
will be the basic phrase that we will
use for this video purposes
it sure is you just came from the
cockpit
hey there little guy hi is your first
time on a plane we were planning on
driving but uh tyler here has been
begging us to go on his first airplane
oh is that right uh-huh do you think i
can be a pilot when you grow up no i
don't see why not you just have to study
hard and listen to your parents
okay sorry about that a little bit of
rough air
right yeah yeah uh donut don't worry
about it
hey we call that turbulence all right
that's when the plane
oh so sorry so they do get something
right in this scene and that's if you
ever have a kid that does something like
this
then rest assured your pilot is going to
make this face and walk over with this
swagger now back in the days before 9 11
it used to be and i remember it as a kid
of the 80s that the pilots when they'd
get up the cruise they'd open the door i
remember it super clearly i was on a
flight they opened up the plate deck
door and they said any kids want to come
up to see the flight deck and the kids
would just like climb over their parents
if they weren't in the aisle i remember
sitting in the island just waiting
because my dad told me that this was
going to happen i remember just waiting
for them to open the door they opened
the door and i just like jumped out and
just like bolted up
up the aisle and i was the first kid up
there so i was up there and i was just
pestering these pilots so many questions
i remember that the captain goes you
know why don't you give one of the other
kids a chance to ask some questions
because i was just peppering these guys
they were probably just sick of me being
up there but that used to be a thing but
typically you aren't going to have
pilots that are going to do this where
they get out during the break and then
they go talk to the passengers
i will do it from time to time when i'm
on my break because there's two other
pilots up there but in a situation like
where there's two pilots and one takes a
break you really need to be expeditious
about going to the bathroom getting back
to work but in a long haul situation
where i might have a three or four hour
break i'll usually get out and go
downstairs and talk with the flight
attendants in the galley and get snacks
and eat and relax and not be on the
flight deck and in that case sometimes
the flight attendants will say hey the
guy over in 52f he recognizes you he
wants to talk to you can you go say hi
and i'll go over there and talk with him
but typically speaking on a two-pilot
crew like what you're seeing here the
pilots aren't going to go and make small
talk just because they have the
responsibility to get back up onto the
flight deck
but if you ever see me coming over to
you to say hi and i'm making a face like
this
please tell me to stop as for the
turbulence coming on unknowingly it's
weird because i would say about
90 or 95 percent of the time i can feel
a second before the turbulence hits i
there's it's kind of hard to describe
unless you experience the sensation a
lot but it's like if you're flying along
it almost feels like you've gotten on to
a wave in the ocean you feel this the
the plane kind of shift and lift up a
little bit like it's just gotten onto a
wave is kind of the only way i can
explain it i i felt it enough just to
know exactly as soon as i feel that i
know uh oh the turbulence is coming so
to have something like this happen
that is extremely rare however just
because it happened to be a few days ago
i was on one of these 15-hour flights
which i love to do and during this
flight i was looking out the window and
we were i was talking with the other
captain we were looking out the window
and just kind of making small talk we
were over the middle of the ocean there
was nothing going on it was smooth as
glass there was nothing going on and
then for about a half a second we hit
some
probably moderate
turbulence and it was just so aggressive
and in that half a second
we both were like oh man and we both
turn and grab on to the yoke just in
case the autopilot disconnected we turn
around and grabbed them by the time we
grabbed on both of us did it by the time
we grabbed onto it it was smooth again
and it's so rare to have something like
that except if you're experiencing some
wake turbulence which we wouldn't have
experienced in in this area that we were
at but it was just so strange and so
normally you i will notice right before
we're about to hit turbulence so you'd
be able to grab onto something but
something like this could happen and
that's why the pilots and the flight
attendants always say when you're in
your seat keep your seat belt fastened
because you can't experience turbines
when you're not expecting it but i'd say
about 90 95 percent of the time i can
feel the turbines before it comes so
next time you're on the flight i know
some of you are scared of turbulence
next time you're on a flight
wait to feel that sensation where the
plane feels like it's going on to a wave
that's the only way i can describe it it
feels like it's going onto a wave and
then the turbulence is going to come and
that's just because there's a shifting
of the air so it'll you'll feel that
that slight movement before the
turbulence comes and then you know it's
coming in that way you never end up in
this situation
and while i have heard a flight
attendant sitting down in an aisle or
sitting down on a passenger's lap so
that way they can hold on to the arm
rest when we experience some unexpected
rough turbulence obviously it's safer
for them to sit down and hold on to
something than try to stand there and
balance themselves but i have i have
heard a flight attendant sitting down in
somebody's lap and holding on to an
armrest which most people are going to
understand they don't want their
somebody else to get hurt because they
don't want someone to be touching them
but i have heard of that i've never
heard of a pilot
grabbing someone like this
but i am 100 sure that some of them have
tried at some point or another all right
let's check out this last scene
perry you took us up to 60 000 feet what
are you doing oh rusty i want to thank
you for going to bat for me last week
so thankfully for those of us who are
pig mentally challenged and have blue
eyes and have to squint when it's super
bright outside like i'm doing today
planes no longer are made to have all of
these windows like you're seeing here on
the flight deck some planes back in the
day like the old md 80s or the 737s used
to have something that were called
eyebrow windows these eyebrow windows
were basically windows that were used
when you were doing long flights and
needed navigation with the sex tent
which is a really old tool that was used
by sailors back in the day and they used
that tool to help figure out their
position with using stars as part of the
navigation which i'm very glad that they
don't do now but that's what those
windows were for but they don't need
those now they have so many redundant
ways to track your aircraft and for you
to figure out where you're at in the
world that it's unnecessary so next time
you see one of these
or one of these here on a 737 you'll
know what that was used for but you're
gonna see them less and less also i
think it's worth mentioning that on the
flight deck we don't have oxygen masks
like the passengers have these right
here are the oxygen masks that the
passengers are going to have in the back
of the plane and they produce less
oxygen and for a limited time period and
our oxygen masks don't drop from the
ceiling like they do for you in the
cabin area they are actually down by our
feet this is a picture of what it looks
like on the 747 these here are what we
actually use and they're connected to
oxygen tanks so we can get a 100
pressurized air in case of an emergency
and for this part where he
you took says 60
to sixty thousand feet what are you
doing your commercial airliners like
what you fly on as a passenger usually
won't ever go above the forties the
forties is even high usually as you know
when your passenger the pilot say oh
we'll be cruising today at thirty six
thousand uh feet on our way out to san
antonio so 30s is usually where we're
staying at on the 7-4 we'll go to the
40s just because it's it's more fuel
efficient and we got four engines and so
we can do that more often but typically
you're never going to hear about a
commercial airliner going above the 40s
however if you ever fly private on let's
say a
g550 a gulfstream 550 like this one here
those will cruise up at the 50 000 foot
range because their wings and their
aircraft is designed to be up at that
altitude it allows them to get over the
tops of clouds and have a much smoother
ride throughout the day but if you were
to take a commercial airliner even let's
say a 747 up to 60 000 feet most likely
it's going to stall and that's going to
mean that the plane is going to nose
itself over and head back down to
thicker air now if you want to see
another hollywood versus reality check
out this video here and if you want to
see some pilots that are dealing with
air traffic control in real life check
out this video up here
i look forward to hearing from you until
then
keep the blue side up